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Anthropic has begun watermarking Claude's outputs with invisible code to comply with the EU AI Act's Transparency Code, drawing criticism from some users on Reddit who fear being caught using AI for work or school, while…
Anthropic's new watermarking system for its Claude AI models has sparked backlash from users on social media, who complain it will expose their use of the tool at jobs and in classes. The feature, reported by TechCrunch …
The Dissent, an AI-powered news site created by Dakota Carrasco, a 27-year-old BlackRock portfolio specialist, uses AI agents posing as reporters to cover San Francisco, often reusing the work of human journalists from o…
Clearview AI has been fined approximately €90.5 million by five European authorities for scraping facial images from the web, but enforcement remains uncertain as the company has no assets or establishment in the EU. The…
Twitch has introduced a new generative AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, and it is enabled by default, with the company stating that 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.' The system, which has…
Legal ethics experts warn that lawyers' use of AI remains highly problematic due to unreliable outputs and data privacy risks, according to a UC Law San Francisco Lexlab analysis. The analysis identifies that AI tools ca…
ShieldFont, an open-source font created by designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio, disrupts AI scrapers by serving them nonsense text while humans read normally, swapping roughly 24.4% of all words on protected page…
Researchers from the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute, MATS, and Snyk demonstrated that encrypted chain-of-thought reasoning from frontier AI models can be replayed into cheaper sibling models to extrac…
China's new AI-generated content labelling measures, effective September 1, 2025, mandate both visible and metadata labels for synthetic content, with obligations distributed across generators, platforms, and users. The …
Amazon is training its AI models on Twitch livestreams, Twitch confirmed on Wednesday, announcing an opt-out setting that defaults users into the training. Twitch's head of community, Mary Kish, acknowledged the expected…
Designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio have created ShieldFont, a font that displays readable text to human visitors while serving AI scrapers a nonsensical version in the underlying HTML, offering web publishers a …
Fei-Fei Li, known as the 'Godmother of AI' and inventor of ImageNet, said on the Huberman Lab podcast that the biggest AI risk in schools is students losing the motivation and agency to learn, not cheating. Li warned tha…
California's SB 942, the AI Transparency Act, requires covered providers to build and operate a free public detection tool that answers whether their system generated a given file, with an API and at any volume. The law'…
NoMark, a free private web app, removes AI text watermarks by cleaning invisible Unicode characters and optionally rewriting statistical token patterns, while also stripping image metadata such as EXIF, GPS, XMP, IPTC, a…
Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project generates adversarial patterns that defeated all 11 open-source detection algorithms he tested, including software behind Flock license plate readers, Axon body cameras, and Clearv…
HallPass, the lower-calorie candy brand co-founded by David Protein and RxBar cofounder Peter Rahal and Stuffed Puffs founder Michael Tierney, launched on Monday with product images full of AI-generated typos, which Pres…
A new field called tokenomics has emerged as companies struggle to measure the return on their artificial intelligence spending, prompting the Linux Foundation to launch the Tokenomics Foundation on 4 August with 30 foun…
An analysis of 18,012 verified ChatGPT citations found that 44.2% of citations came from the first 30% of a page's content, suggesting that content placement significantly influences AI citation behavior. The study, base…
A spoofing campaign is scanning thousands of websites for AI credential files, including Claude settings and .env files, while disguising itself as legitimate AI crawlers like ClaudeBot and GPTBot, according to bot-analy…
Doug Cockle, the voice actor behind Geralt in The Witcher 3, said he wishes he could "sue every single AI platform" for using his voice without permission, highlighting growing concerns over AI voice cloning in the gamin…